Your•bot Announces Version 4.0 of the Most Advanced Golf Tournament Scoring App for iOS 8

tour•bot™ and tour•botPro™ have been turbo-charged with new features and capabilities that allow users to run the most-advanced tournaments possible. Upgraded with powerful new features, such as internet-based score sharing and internet-based tournament leader boards, your•bot continues to bring the power of advanced app development to all tour•bot / tour•botPro users with this FREE upgrade.

Chicago, IL, USA, September 23, 2014 - (PressReleasePoint) - your•bot™ and developer James Prete announces version 4.0 of the your•bot's golf tournament scoring app, tourbot4 (v4.0 will be available soon on the iTunes App Store) for devices running iOS v8.x or later.

NEW - iOS 8 REWRITE

The tourbot4 app has been completely rewritten to take advantage of all of Apple's innovation included in iOS 8. A clean visual appearance with a strong emphais on the application information is the hallmark of iOS 8 apps. iOS 8 also provides support for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and tourbot4 automatically takes advantage of the new screen sizes these devices offer.

NEW - PLAYER FLIGHTING & FOURSOME ASSIGNMENTS
tourbot4 includes an advanced set of player management tools not found in any other Mobile app for golf tournament management. Flight options include: By Tee Assignment, in 2, 3, or 4 quantitles, and manual assignment giving the tournament director full control over player flighting. Foursome assignment allows the tournament director to assign up to five players to a start time with the option of shotgun start.

INTERNET LEADER BOARDS
Internet Leader boards and Tournament Score Synchronization is built into tourbot4! Now users can post results from within the app to the GolfScoring.co server and instantly share them with their friends and competitors (internet-access required). Live and real-time! Users may decide when to post scores or they can let the app post scores automatically. Let anyone waiting in the clubhouse check the results as frequently as they wish on the server: Golfscoring.co/leaderboard.html. Tournament participants can also quickly review the tournament's current status at any time either using a long-press touch on an uploaded tour selected from the "Tours" screen or by downloading all players' scores for an event and when scoring is complete, report the results using any and all games reports available (over 27 report variations are available). The folks at your•bot have made this new feature the most seamless and efficient scoring sharing capability available to any app on any platform. Battery impact is negligible. If access to the internet is lost, no problem! The Apps will automatically recover when the internet becomes available and will update all missing information as soon as possible.

PLAYER FILTERING USING FOURSOME ASSIGNMENTS
Version 4.0 also introduces Foursome assignments to the Player Filtering tools. Now, preassigned Foursome assignments may be quickly selected to focus the scoring screen on just the players you are playing with. It takes just seconds to setup and can be instantly removed to reveal all players.

"SCORING SMARTS"
Finally, to ensure perfect scoring, Your•bot has added "Scoring Smarts" to the apps. Now, when users enter the scoring screen for an event, tourbo4 will automatically check all players for proper handicap index setup, and all course setup information for completeness. If any of the critical setup-items are missing, tourbot4 will warn the user, giving them a chance to correct the information before entering the scores. In addition, Your•bot has added a "fix" utility to previously entered scores to allow new player and course information to be taken into consideration for calculating scoring results for a player.

Skins games (either a Tournament style with roll-over for push or a hole-by-hole scoring)

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2-Player best-ball game with either event-level team or tournament-level team pairings;

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4-Player 2-best-balls game, also with either event-level team or tournament-level team pairings;

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Match Play scoring results

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Blind Nine tournament scoring system

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Peoria tournament scoring system

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Perrier tournament scoring system

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Quota tournament scoring system

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Alterative Quota tournament scoring system

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Callaway scoring system with optional Dr. Scheid modified chart

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Greenie Game Results

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Birdie Game Results

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All of the above games may be scored and reported at the same time on the same tournament. No other golf tournament scoring software for any platform can do this. When doing total-round-summary scoring, golfers can score gross stokes and up to three separate games (such as Binga, Banga, Bonga, or any three scores they wish to keep) for all players on the tournament.

Advanced Features of the tourbo4 include:

App Features

Easy setup of all Course / Tee / Player / Tournament Information

Many-Sync™ technology to allow the rapid transfer of all tournament setup and scoring from the scorekeeper’s iOS device to all participants iOS devices using the internet.

Facilitates the communication of event location and event scheduling to all participants in advance of the tournament day. Team Pairings for 2-Player and 4-Player teams, as well as Flight and Foursome assignments may also be sent via email.

Link tournament participants to their Contact Address Book on their iOS device to fill in first and last name and obtain an email address to allow rapid emailing of tournament results to all participants.

Using either the built-in camera or photos in the Photo library, add a photo snapshot of the tour participants for a little fun during scoring

Comprehensive Help System built-into including Instant Help®, PDF manuals and Internet-based and up-to-date FAQ for the Apps and tournament game definitions

Multiple data entry techniques, ranging from total-round scoring for four results (gross strokes plus three other games) – to hole-by-hole scoring (required for most tournament games) using one of three different levels of detail (gross strokes only and two additional player-level scoring / performance reporting options).

Player Filtering for stream-lined Scoring, allows focus on just the players in their group

Attaches a gZip'ed file to the email, with the selected tournament to allow the easy import into any spreadsheet program

Free Registration on Handicap.GolfScoring.Co

Download and refresh Club, Course, Tee information for available courses from Handicap.GolfScoring.co with Free Registration

With detailed Player scoring of hole performance metrics, Handicap.GolfScoring.co will provide player stroke performance with trend analysis.

Optional annual-paid upgrade on GolfScoring.co to allow the creation and maintenance of an official USGA™ Handicap Index, virtual tournaments, social networking, assignment to local Golf Association / Club and more

Full use of all program features requires using detailed scoring options and the entry of all course-related information, include: course rating, slope, Par by hole and handicap rank by hole.

"Get the fun done!" with tourbot4™ for $4.99/USD from the App Store® on iPhone® or iPad®.

tour•botPro™, tour•bot™, tour•botPlayer™, tourbot4™ and your•bot™ associated trademarks and logos are trademarks of James Prete.

About your•bot:
your•bot is a focused group focused on developing and delivering advanced and easy-to-use software for amateur competitions that span multiple events and locations. Principal developer, James Prete, has been developing software solutions for a broad variety of markets for over thirty years.
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